Verify your domain through your website

You can verify your domain ownership by adding a meta tag or uploading an HTML file to your domain’s website. If you can’t edit your website, or don’t have a website, you can verify your domain through your domain host (typically where you purchased your domain).

Note: If you purchased your domain when you signed up for G Suite, you don’t need to verify.

Why verify?

After you verify that you own your domain, you can start using Gmail, Google Drive, and all the other services included with your G Suite account.

The verification method you choose depends on your web host. Use the HTML file method if you can upload HTML files to your domain’s web host. Use the meta tag method if you are unable to upload HTML files to your domain’s web host.

G Suite gives you a meta tag containing a verification code to paste into the <head> section of your website’s homepage. Visitors to your website won't see the meta tag, but we can check that it's there.

Before you start:

Your website must be available at your naked domain, which means it doesn’t have www in the URL. For example, http://yourdomain.com is a naked domain.

Your website must be publicly available and not limited to an internal network (an intranet, for example).

This prompts Google to check for the meta tag on your website's homepage. Your domain is verified after Google finds the meta tag. It might take up to an hour for Google to verify your domain. If we don't find the tag immediately, we'll keep checking for it periodically.

This prompts Google to check for the HTML file at your web host. It can take up to an hour for Google to verify your domain. If we don't find the HTML file immediately, we'll keep checking for it periodically.